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British surgeons perform world’s first eye operation with aid of robot on 70-year-old priest

Surgeons have performed a revolutionary eye operation on a 70-year-old priest – thanks to the help of a robot .

The robot performed intricate work inside Father William Beaver’s eye after his vision had become so distorted, he said it felt like “looking in a hall of mirrors at a fairground”.

Surgeons at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital have now said robots could be used more often for complicated eye operations in the future.

Father Beaver told BBC Breakfast: “I was completely relaxed and completely comfortable because I could see that all the technology was in place and all the goodwill was in place and all the skills were in place.

“Because, you see, the key is the precision. The pulse… coursing through the hand of the surgeon could have ruined it, could have given me a haemorrhage and this just made it, well, simple.”

On completing the operation, Professor Robert MacLaren said: “There is no doubt in my mind that we have just witnessed a vision of eye surgery in the future.

“Current technology with laser scanners and microscopes allows us to monitor retinal diseases at the microscopic level, but the things we see are beyond the physiological limit of what the human hand can operate on.

“With a robotic system, we open up a whole new chapter of eye operations that currently cannot be performed.”

The procedure was necessary because the patient had a membrane growing on the surface of his retina, which had contracted and pulled it into an uneven shape.

The membrane is about 100th of a millimetre thick and needed to be dissected off the retina without damaging it.

Surgeons normally attempt this by slowing their pulse and timing movements between heart beats, but the robot could make it much easier.

Experts said the robot could enable new, high-precision procedures that are currently out of the reach of the human hand.

The surgeons used a joystick and touchscreen outside the eye to control the robot while monitoring its progress through the operating microscope.

This gave medics a notable advantage as significant movements of the joystick resulted in tiny movements of the robot.

This is the first time a device has been available that achieves the three-dimensional precision required to operate inside the human eye.

Speaking at his follow-up visit at the Oxford Eye Hospital , Father Beaver said: “My sight is coming back.

“I am delighted that my surgery went so well and I feel honoured to be part of this pioneering research project.”

Prof MacLaren said: “This will help to develop novel surgical treatments for blindness, such as gene therapy and stem cells, which need to be inserted under the retina with a high degree of precision.”

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